So This Is What A Boxing Title Fight Is All About

…Continued from the previous post.

Allan Green fights Glen Johnson in the undercard for Juanma Lopez vs. Rafael Marquez fight

Allan Green (left) vs. Glen Johnson

At the MGM Grand Garden Arena, it was almost showtime – both figuratively and literally – and the place was all a twitter…well, both figuratively and literally.

We were just about to go live on Showtime Championship Boxing for the Glen Johnson vs. Allan Green bout, which would warm up the television audience for the Big One:  Juanma Lopez vs. Rafael Marquez for the WBO World Featherweight Championship.

After an undercard played to a small but appreciative audience, the atmosphere had definitely turned into an official “scene”. Judging by the blanket of cell phone screens alive in the dark arena, more than a few people were texting, Twittering, or…what was it that we used to do in the olden days?…oh, right – talking to their friends. And all with the same message. “Turn on your TV! This is so cool!”
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Big-Time Boxing: Still A Honeymoon In Vegas?

Anthony Lenk vs. Danny Escobar in Undercard Bout

“How long could it possibly take to go 2.1 miles?”

I asked that of myself while sitting in a Las Vegas hotel room recently, debating when to pull myself away from the college football game I was watching and head over to the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

The undercard was just about to start, but it would be hours before Juanma Lopez and Rafael Marquez would enter the ring for the WBO World Featherweight Championship. And I already had my ticket in hand. So I sat back and watched the rest of the game before venturing out.

In answer to the question above, I’m pretty sure that salmon can complete the full upstream journey to spawn in the time that it takes to navigate two miles on The Strip, find the right place to park, and wend your way through the MGM Grand catacombs to your seat. And the salmon probably have an easier time of it.

Once I got there I got all nostalgic. “It seems like just yesterday that I left my hotel room – where does the time go?”
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